Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-23
Green Room Notes.

Green Room Notes.
Miss George Parker, the new
ssVenus" of Hoyt's Rag Baby Com
pany, is one Of the original Parker
Sisters, who created such a sensation
and became so popular with vaude-
vile patrons few seasons ago. Her
new departure promises to make her
still more popular.
1t is adite the fashion for theatrical
people to become enthusiasts on base
ball and au contrarte, Mike Kelly has
seen Hoyt's A Tin Soldier thirty-one
times, and says he'll be glad to sit 1t
out again. George Gore, OF the New
Yorks. has about as good a record in
this line as Kelly.
Fred Warde, who was playing to
cold house somewhere out West the
other night, came forward and said,
honestly and openly, that he couldn't
play without applause, since it was as
necessary to him as oil to machinery.
Whereupon a delighted audience gave
him all he wanted. They were thor
cughly pleased, but were unused to
theatres, and had not thought of it
before.
Miss Marie Engel, the Chicago
singer. is reported to have broken her
engagement with Arthur Mapleson, as
American managers promised her
better things than the old Colonel.
She is to receive $40, 900 for three
months season in New York. Marie
Enge. will be remembered as the
beautiful Inaudible, who essayed the
role Of "Titania" during Mapleson's
lat season.
MIR. Hoyt positively denys the re-
port that he is going to play in his
new comedy, 4 Hole IN the Ground.
The fact that he has played so many
times in the west the past Season, that
the impression has gone abroad in the
east that he has been playing regu-
larry. But Hoyt declares that moth
ing but the necessity of filling part
on short notice will drive him to don
wig and greese paint again.
Mr.. Mike Kelly, the famous base
ballist, and Mr.. Chas. Hoyt, the
dramatist, are great admirers of each
other. 1t is fact that ii Kelly had
been forced by his determinati n not
to play ball in Chicago, to leave the
diamond, that he would have joined
Mr.. Hoyt's theatrical forces, Mr..
Hoyt believing that Kelly would make
q great comedian. AS it is there is a
possibility that Mr.. Kelly may play in
one Of Hoyt's companies for few
weeks the coming winter.
The satire Of Hoyt's latest comedy.
A Hole IN the Ground, is one in which
everybody will sympathize. He shows
up the domineerlng meanness of a
petty railroad official, who thinks he
is the whole railroad; and it is safe to
saw that the discovery by the abusive
station agent that the nice old gentle
man he has insulted is the president
of the road, will be hailed by the pub
lie as a lovely piece OF retributive jus.
tice.
eugene Garfield, who plays the par
of "Rats" Hoyt's A Tin Soldier this
season, is one OF the most versatile
comedians on the American stage
having played all kinds of comedy an'
character parts during his twenty-on
years on the American stage. ILL
Greatest creation undoubtedly was thu
Sart of "Grimes" in d Bunch OF Keys
which he played for five seasons. Hl
new character, "Rats," fits him like
glove. and he is making the creates
hit Of his life in it.
Miss Kate Davis, who plays "Vio
let.n in Hoyt's A Tin Soldier this sea
son. il known to the stage as the
woman with the phenominal voice. "
During the past two seasons she
played the part OF a fairy queen In
Hanlon's Fcntasma, and was one OF
the distinctive hits Of that magnifi-
cent production. She is essentially a